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26 August 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
At the onset of puberty, the emergence of a novel inhibitory brain receptor, α4βδ (alpha four beta delta), reduces epilepsy seizure-like activity in mouse...
25 August 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
This program responds to the need for more robust, ecological approaches to address chronic diseases among racial and ethnic minority groups, under-served rural populations, people of less privileged socio-economic status, along with groups subject to discrimination who have poorer health outcomes often attributed to being socially disadvantaged...
4 August 2016 | By National Institute of Health (NIH)
Scientists have discovered 15 genome sites — the first ever — linked to depression in people of European ancestry. Many of these regions of depression-linked genetic variation turn out to be involved in regulating gene expression and the birth of new neurons in the developing brain...
25 July 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
Scientists have identified three types of vaccine-induced antibodies that can neutralise diverse strains of the flu virus that infect so many each year...
14 July 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
The US National Institutes of Health has awarded $30 million in annual funding to help advance science towards a cure for HIV...
5 July 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
The study aims to improve understanding of how the Zika virus persists in the body and to identify potential factors that influence the course of infection...
28 June 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Combining engineered anthrax toxin proteins and existing chemotherapy drugs could potentially yield a therapy to reduce or eliminate cancerous tumours...
21 June 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
NIH and Fiocruz have begun a study to evaluate the health risks that Zika virus infection poses to pregnant women and their developing foetuses...
8 June 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Researchers have discovered that boosting the transport of mitochondria along neuronal axons enhances the ability of nerve cells to repair themselves...
4 May 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Researchers have identified a metabolite of ketamine, hydroxynorketamine, that quickly reverses depression in mice, but without ketamine's side effects...
6 April 2016 | By Victoria White
Laura Bohn, principal investigator of the project, will focus on the kappa opioid receptor, which helps regulate the release of dopamine...
5 April 2016 | By Victoria White
Research will include studies into how combinations of adjuvants interact with the immune system, and how synergies between adjuvants can be optimised...
21 March 2016 | By Victoria White
The finding may lead to new options for male contraception as well as treatments for infertility resulting from problems with sperm mobility...
10 February 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer, Drug Target Review
The MRC has launched a £1m rapid response funding initiative to better understand the nature of the risk posed by the Zika virus. Find out about this initiative and NIH's call for research here...
8 February 2016 | By Victoria White
NIH says one of the highest priorities is to establish conclusively what role, if any, Zika virus has played in the marked increase in suspected microcephaly cases...
